On my site I want to add a section just below Navigation and above-content (from where posts starts to show up on front page) which would show a panel where I can put any BREAKING NEWS (not always, whenever I want) with its excerpt and image. That panel should stretch with max-width.
I want to pull that BREAKING NEWS from a specific category say - category_breaking.
Is it possible? If yes, then how?
Thanks for the help.
I want to achieve exactly like this - (https://i.sstatic.net/1jYuh.png)
It's certainly possible, and is a common thing to do with WordPress:
<?php
$q = new WP_Query('category_name=category_breaking'); // query that gets all posts in category "category_breaking"
if( $q->have_posts() ) : // if there are posts returned by query...
echo "<div id='breaking_news'>"; // start the breaking news section
while( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post(); // start looping through query results
echo "<div class='bn_post'>"; // single breaking news post start
echo "<h2>".get_the_title()."</h2>"; // display breaking news post title
if(has_post_thumbnail()) // if post has featured image set...
{
the_post_thumbnail(); // then display featured image
}
echo "</div>"; // close single breaking news post
endwhile;
echo "</div>"; // close breaking news section
endif;
?>
